Nen·ets

(nĕn′ĕts)

n. pl. Nenets

1. A member of a people of extreme northwest Russia along the coast of the White, Barents, and Kara Seas.

2. The Samoyed language of this people.

[Nenets, human being, Nenets.]

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Noun

Nenets - a Uralic language spoken by a Samoyed of northern Siberia

Nentsi, Nentsy, Yurak-Samoyed

Samoyedic, Samoyed - the Uralic languages spoken by the Samoyed in northwestern Siberia

Translations

iurac

nénètse

nyenyec

Nenets

ненец ненецкий язык

nentsiska

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Joining the Nenets, reindeer herders living deep in the Arctic, Kate needs more than just a scarf and woolly hat to keep cosy, as temperatures can drop to - 54degC.

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Those included the Nenets no-, no-, Nganasan ne- and Enets i- (Castren 1854 : 436-437, 493-494, 518.) Their use appears in Table 1, in which I have underlined the forms of respective stems to make them prominent.

Three North Samoyedic prohibitive auxiliaries: nenets no-, no-, nu-, nu-, nganasan ne- and enets i-

They are so important to the Nenets living in the icy wastes of Siberia that they are even called the Reindeer People.

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This anthology, consisting of seven short stories, takes the viewer to the isolated land of the Nenets, who live, literally, at the top of the world.

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